hi friends............
At last , I have come across a very ... SEXY AND INTERESTING ... topic for my BLOG.....
MEN AND SPORTS..
Why do men Eat SPORTS , drink SPORTS , sleep SPORTS , and they can do anything to play and watch SPORTS???
And they are ready to fight with their mothers and wives too? :) :) :)
Actually SPORTS is addictive.........It relieves stress and gives men total happiness............ I think God made Sports for men only ... :)
Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. Sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determiner of the outcome (winning or losing), but the term is also used to include activities such as mind sports (a common name for some card games and board games with little to no element of chance) and motor sports where mental acuity or equipment quality are major factors.
Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. Sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determiner of the outcome (winning or losing), but the term is also used to include activities such as mind sports (a common name for some card games and board games with little to no element of chance) and motor sports where mental acuity or equipment quality are major factors.
TECHNOLOGY
Technology has an important role in sports, whether applied to an athlete's health, the athlete's technique, or equipment's characteristics.
Equipment As sports have grown more competitive, the need for better equipment has arisen. Golf clubs, football helmets, baseball bats, soccer balls, hockey skates, and other equipment have all seen considerable changes when new technologies have been applied.
Health Ranging from nutrition to the treatment of injuries, as the knowledge of the human body has deepened over time, an athlete's potential has been increased. Athletes are now able to play to an older age, recover more quickly from injuries, and train more effectively than previous generations of athletes.
Instruction Advancing technology created new opportunities for research into sports. It is now possible to analyse aspects of sports that were previously out of the reach of comprehension. Being able to use motion capture to capture an athlete's movement, or advanced computer simulations to model physical scenarios has greatly increased an athlete's ability to understand what they are doing and how they can improve themselves.
Equipment As sports have grown more competitive, the need for better equipment has arisen. Golf clubs, football helmets, baseball bats, soccer balls, hockey skates, and other equipment have all seen considerable changes when new technologies have been applied.
Health Ranging from nutrition to the treatment of injuries, as the knowledge of the human body has deepened over time, an athlete's potential has been increased. Athletes are now able to play to an older age, recover more quickly from injuries, and train more effectively than previous generations of athletes.
Instruction Advancing technology created new opportunities for research into sports. It is now possible to analyse aspects of sports that were previously out of the reach of comprehension. Being able to use motion capture to capture an athlete's movement, or advanced computer simulations to model physical scenarios has greatly increased an athlete's ability to understand what they are doing and how they can improve themselves.
PHYSICAL ART
Gymnastics
Sports have many affinities with art. Ice skating and Tai chi, and Dancesport for example, are sports that come close to artistic spectacles in themselves. Similarly, there are other activities that have elements of sport and art in their execution, such as artistic gymnastics, Bodybuilding, Free running, performance art, professional wrestling, Yoga, bossaball, dressage, culinary arts, marching band, drum corps, etc. Perhaps the best example is Bull-fighting, which in Spain is reported in the arts pages of newspapers. The fact that art is so close to sports in some situations is probably related to the nature of sports. The definition of "sports" above put forward the idea of an activity pursued not just for the usual purposes, for example, running not simply to get places, but running for its own sake, running as well as we can.
This is similar to a common view of aesthetic value, which is seen as something over and above the strictly functional value coming from an object's normal use. So an aesthetically pleasing car is one which doesn't just get from A to B, but which impresses us with its grace, poise, and charisma.
In the same way, a sporting performance such as jumping doesn't just impress us as being an effective way to avoid obstacles or to get across streams. It impresses us because of the ability, skill, and style which is shown.
Art and sports were probably more clearly linked at the time of Ancient Greece, when gymnastics and calisthenics invoked admiration and aesthetic appreciation for the physical build, prowess and 'arete' displayed by participants. The modern term 'art' as skill, is related to this ancient Greek term 'arete'. The closeness of art and sport in these times was revealed by the nature of the Olympic Games which, as we have seen, were celebrations of both sporting and artistic achievements, poetry, sculpture and architecture.
Sportsmanship is conformance to the rules, spirit, and etiquette of sport. More grandly, it may be considered the ethos of sport. It is interesting that the motivation for sport is often an elusive element. Sportsmanship expresses an aspiration or ethos that the activity will be enjoyed for its own sake, with proper consideration for fairness, ethics, respect, and a sense of fellowship with one's competitors. Being a "good sport" involves being a "good winner" as well as being a "good loser".[1]
Often the pressures of competition, individual achievement, or introduction of technology can seem to work against enjoyment by participants. As a result, sportsmanship may be contrasted with gamesmanship.
Examples of poor sportsmanship are winners "rubbing salt in the wounds" of the losers, or the losers expressing frustration at not winning, perhaps to the point of holding a grudge, booing the winner's national anthem (at an event such as the Olympics) or failing to congratulate the winners.
Sportsmanship typically is regarded as a component of morality in sport, composed of three related and perhaps overlapping concepts: fair play, sportsmanship, and character.[2] Fair play refers to all participants having an equitable chance to pursue victory[3] and acting toward others in an honest, straightforward, and a firm and dignified manner even when others do not play fairly. It includes respect for others including team members, opponents, and officials.[4] Character refers to dispositions, values and habits that determine the way that person normally responds to desires, fears, challenges, opportunities, failures and successes and is typically seen in polite behaviors toward others such as helping an opponent up or shaking hands after a match. An individual is believed to have a “good character” when those dispositions and habits reflect core ethical values. This is important to a lot of sports.
Sportsmanship can be conceptualized as an enduring and relatively stable characteristic or disposition such that individuals differ in the way they are generally expected to behave in sport situations. In general, sportsmanship refers to virtues such as fairness, self-control, courage and persistence[5] and has been associated with interpersonal concepts of treating others and being treated fairly, maintaining self-control in dealing with others, and respect for both authority and opponents. Five facets of sportsmanship have been identified:
Full commitment to participation (e.g., showing up, working hard during all practices and games, acknowledging one’s mistakes and trying to improve);
Respect and concern for rules and officials;
Respect and concern for social conventions (e.g., shaking hands, recognizing the good performance of an opponent);
Respect and concern for the opponent (e.g., lending one’s equipment to the opponent, agreeing to play even if the opponent is late, not taking advantage of injured opponents);
Avoiding poor attitudes toward participation (e.g., not adopting a win-at-all-costs approach, not showing temper after a mistake, and not competing solely for individual prizes).[6]
SORE LOSER
A sore loser is one who reacts immaturely or improperly when losing a game or contest.
A sore loser is one who reacts immaturely or improperly when losing a game or contest.
The use of music at sporting events is a practice that is thousands of years old, but has recently had a resurgence as a noted phenomenon. Some sports have specific traditions with respect to pieces of music played at particular intervals. Others have made the presentation of music very specific to the team--even to particular players. Music may be used to build the energy of the fans, and music may also be introduced in ways that are less directly connected with the action in a sporting event.
Certain songs have historically been associated with particular sporting events. Fans of the home team at collegiate athletic events may serenade the losing visitors with a song recorded by Steam, titled "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye", with its familiar refrain, "na na, na na na na, hey, hey, hey, goodbye." Queen's standards '"We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions" have also become common fNationalism and sport are often intertwined, as sports provide a venue for symbolic competition between nations; sports competition often reflects national conflict, and in fact has often been a tool of diplomacy. The involvement of political goals in sport is seen by some as contrary to the fundamental ethos of sport being carried on for its own sake, for the enjoyment of its participants, but this involvement has been true throughout the history of sport.
Most sports are contested between national teams, which encourages the use of sporting events for nationalist purposes, whether intentionally or not. The signalling of national solidarity through sport is one of the primary forms of banal nationalism.
Several sporting events are a matter of national pride; The Ashes is a matter of national pride between England and Australia. Also in cricket an India vs Pakistan match puts both countries on a virtual standstill as it is all about national pride during those matches.
The Olympic Games are the premier stage for nationalist competition, and its history reflects the history of political conflict since its inception at the end of the 19th century. The 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin was an illustration, maybe best acknowledged in hindsight, where an ideology was developing which used the event to strengthen its spread through propaganda. The boycott by the United States and politically aligned nations of the 1980 Summer Olympics and the Soviet Union of the 1984 Summer Olympics were part of the Cold War conflict.
When apartheid was the official policy in South Africa, many sportspeople adopted the conscientious approach that they should not appear in competitive sports there. Some feel this was an effective contribution to the eventual demolition of the policy of apartheid, others feel that it may have prolonged and reinforced its worst effects. Many African nations boycotted the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, as a result of then New Zealand Prime Minister Robert Muldoon allowing the All Blacks to tour South Africa. The issue would later come to a head during the 1981 Springbok Tour.
In the history of Ireland, Gaelic sports were clearly carried on with nationalist overtones: for example, for most of the last century a person could have been banned from playing Gaelic football, hurling, or other sport, if the person was seen to have played soccer, cricket, rugby or any other game which was perceived to be of British origin.
The nationalistic Italian fascists also created Volata as their own home-grown alternative to soccer and rugby. It was intended to be a replacement for the popular British games that would be of a more local character, tracing its heritage back to the earlier Italian games of Harpastum and Calcio Fiorentino. However, unlike its Gaelic equivalents, Volata was short-lived and is no longer played.
The policy of Spanish football team Athletic Bilbao of picking only Basque players is strongly linked to Basque nationalism.are at sporting events, as have Five Stone's "Make Noise" and Gary Glitter's "Rock and Roll Part 2". Most collegiate sports are accompanied by a band that plays brass and drum instrumental music designed to accentuate the experience.
Most sports are contested between national teams, which encourages the use of sporting events for nationalist purposes, whether intentionally or not. The signalling of national solidarity through sport is one of the primary forms of banal nationalism.
Several sporting events are a matter of national pride; The Ashes is a matter of national pride between England and Australia. Also in cricket an India vs Pakistan match puts both countries on a virtual standstill as it is all about national pride during those matches.
The Olympic Games are the premier stage for nationalist competition, and its history reflects the history of political conflict since its inception at the end of the 19th century. The 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin was an illustration, maybe best acknowledged in hindsight, where an ideology was developing which used the event to strengthen its spread through propaganda. The boycott by the United States and politically aligned nations of the 1980 Summer Olympics and the Soviet Union of the 1984 Summer Olympics were part of the Cold War conflict.
When apartheid was the official policy in South Africa, many sportspeople adopted the conscientious approach that they should not appear in competitive sports there. Some feel this was an effective contribution to the eventual demolition of the policy of apartheid, others feel that it may have prolonged and reinforced its worst effects. Many African nations boycotted the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, as a result of then New Zealand Prime Minister Robert Muldoon allowing the All Blacks to tour South Africa. The issue would later come to a head during the 1981 Springbok Tour.
In the history of Ireland, Gaelic sports were clearly carried on with nationalist overtones: for example, for most of the last century a person could have been banned from playing Gaelic football, hurling, or other sport, if the person was seen to have played soccer, cricket, rugby or any other game which was perceived to be of British origin.
The nationalistic Italian fascists also created Volata as their own home-grown alternative to soccer and rugby. It was intended to be a replacement for the popular British games that would be of a more local character, tracing its heritage back to the earlier Italian games of Harpastum and Calcio Fiorentino. However, unlike its Gaelic equivalents, Volata was short-lived and is no longer played.
The policy of Spanish football team Athletic Bilbao of picking only Basque players is strongly linked to Basque nationalism.are at sporting events, as have Five Stone's "Make Noise" and Gary Glitter's "Rock and Roll Part 2". Most collegiate sports are accompanied by a band that plays brass and drum instrumental music designed to accentuate the experience.
A sports club, athletics club or sports association is an eclectic institution oriented to multiple sports, which fields many teams and in several sports, working under the same umbrella organization. In a larger sense, it may also refer to any sports institution, even those that have only one sports team or a single sports department. In order to differentiate a single-sport institution from a multi-sport one, the term multi-sport club is used. The term athletics club is usually unambiguous.
Examples abound of sports clubs that are in effect one sports team. Each team from the NBA (basketball), NFL (American football) or MLS (soccer) North American sports leagues, can be called sports clubs, but in practice, they focus solely on a single sport. On the other hand, North American varsity teams are generally organized into a structure forming a true multi-sport club belonging to an educational institution.
Football provides an interesting contrast between nations. There are many clubs named "FC"/"CF" (English: Football Club/Portuguese:Clube de Futebol/Spanish:Club de Fútbol). Generally, British football clubs field only football teams; examples include Liverpool F.C., Newcastle United F.C, Rangers FC and Celtic FC (although its full name was until 1994 The Celtic Football and Athletic Company Ltd.). Their counterparts in Latin countries tend to be full multisports clubs; examples in the Iberian Peninsula include the FC Porto, Boavista FC, and CF Belenenses in Portugal, and Real Madrid CF and FC Barcelona in Spain.
Examples abound of sports clubs that are in effect one sports team. Each team from the NBA (basketball), NFL (American football) or MLS (soccer) North American sports leagues, can be called sports clubs, but in practice, they focus solely on a single sport. On the other hand, North American varsity teams are generally organized into a structure forming a true multi-sport club belonging to an educational institution.
Football provides an interesting contrast between nations. There are many clubs named "FC"/"CF" (English: Football Club/Portuguese:Clube de Futebol/Spanish:Club de Fútbol). Generally, British football clubs field only football teams; examples include Liverpool F.C., Newcastle United F.C, Rangers FC and Celtic FC (although its full name was until 1994 The Celtic Football and Athletic Company Ltd.). Their counterparts in Latin countries tend to be full multisports clubs; examples in the Iberian Peninsula include the FC Porto, Boavista FC, and CF Belenenses in Portugal, and Real Madrid CF and FC Barcelona in Spain.
Great Sportsmen Aren’t Perfect!
Great athletes possess a burning desire to be the best. Their inner drive keeps them going when the going seems impossible. They continuously keep pushing themselves outside their comfort zone.A very important part of their mental buildup is their dissatisfaction with mistakes and mediocre performances. Wanting to be nothing short of perfect, these athletes keep dwelling on their mistakes and try to keep correcting them on a continual basis. Now, strengthening your weaknesses is a sure fire way of progressing towards perfection. Moreover, when you are not tolerant of mistakes, it helps you raise the bar on your overall performance. If you constantly expect yourself to be perfect, sooner or later you will be, right? May be, may be not! Though there is nothing wrong with fixing your mistakes, there is something very wrong with being obsessed with being perfect! If your coaches, your parents and your friends keep telling you that you are doing well, and you tell yourself that you aren’t good enough, you are setting yourself up for big-time failure!All great athletes know that perfectionism is a two-edged sword. When used positively, perfectionism can help you harness your strengths and open a path to your dreams. Healthy perfectionism will take you to personal excellence. However, when you are so obsessed with perfectionism, you fail to see the distance you have covered, the progress you have made, you are cutting your self-confidence and your self-esteem to shreds. You will stop enjoying your sport. You have to remember that all great men, whatever field they have excelled in, have had fun while striving for perfection. No fun, no excellence! It’s that simple!Unhealthy perfectionism has three components, which you have to be careful of. 1. Do not focus on your failures so much that you forget what you did right. 2. Do not measure your imperfect performance against a perfect ideal that in reality does not exist. 3. Do not beat yourself up emotionally for your failures.Your job when you make mistakes is to learn from, and then forget them. When you fail, you must forgive yourself and then leave that failure in the past. Accept the fact that you're going to make mistakes. Accept the fact that you can always be better. Accept the fact that there is no perfect. Accept your humanness. Strive to be perfect while at the same time forgiving yourself for your imperfections.
Great athletes possess a burning desire to be the best. Their inner drive keeps them going when the going seems impossible. They continuously keep pushing themselves outside their comfort zone.A very important part of their mental buildup is their dissatisfaction with mistakes and mediocre performances. Wanting to be nothing short of perfect, these athletes keep dwelling on their mistakes and try to keep correcting them on a continual basis. Now, strengthening your weaknesses is a sure fire way of progressing towards perfection. Moreover, when you are not tolerant of mistakes, it helps you raise the bar on your overall performance. If you constantly expect yourself to be perfect, sooner or later you will be, right? May be, may be not! Though there is nothing wrong with fixing your mistakes, there is something very wrong with being obsessed with being perfect! If your coaches, your parents and your friends keep telling you that you are doing well, and you tell yourself that you aren’t good enough, you are setting yourself up for big-time failure!All great athletes know that perfectionism is a two-edged sword. When used positively, perfectionism can help you harness your strengths and open a path to your dreams. Healthy perfectionism will take you to personal excellence. However, when you are so obsessed with perfectionism, you fail to see the distance you have covered, the progress you have made, you are cutting your self-confidence and your self-esteem to shreds. You will stop enjoying your sport. You have to remember that all great men, whatever field they have excelled in, have had fun while striving for perfection. No fun, no excellence! It’s that simple!Unhealthy perfectionism has three components, which you have to be careful of. 1. Do not focus on your failures so much that you forget what you did right. 2. Do not measure your imperfect performance against a perfect ideal that in reality does not exist. 3. Do not beat yourself up emotionally for your failures.Your job when you make mistakes is to learn from, and then forget them. When you fail, you must forgive yourself and then leave that failure in the past. Accept the fact that you're going to make mistakes. Accept the fact that you can always be better. Accept the fact that there is no perfect. Accept your humanness. Strive to be perfect while at the same time forgiving yourself for your imperfections.
SPORTS LEGENDS............
Vijay Hazare
IndiaVijay Samuel Hazare was born on 11 March 1915 at Sangli in Maharashtra and died on 18 December 2004 at Baroda. An outstanding right-handed middle order batsman and part-time medium pacer, he is without doubt one of the finest batsmen ever produced by the sub-continent. Making his test debut against England at Lord’s in the first test of the 1946 series, he played his last test in the West Indies in 1952-3. The best of his batsmanship was seen during war time matches in the Ranji Trophy and much of his international career was cut short because of the war.Hazare played 30 tests for India, scoring 2,192 runs at an average of 47.65 with seven centuries and nine fifties, and a highest score of 164 n.o. He also claimed 20 wickets at an average of 61.0. He played first class cricket till 1966-7 and scored nearly 19,000 runs with 60 centuries and claimed 595 wickets.A batsman who did not believe in taking the bowling by the scruff of the neck, Hazare usually bided his time till the bowlers were tired and then launched into his signature cover drives, cuts and pull-shots. His centuries in each innings of the test match at Adelaide, against the mighty Aussies of the Bradman era, will remain etched forever as two of the finest innings played by any Indian. In England, while Trueman was running riot, reducing the Indians to nothing-for-four, Hazare walked in coolly and scored 56 runs to stem the rot. Though he captained India in 14 test matches, cricketing pundits believe that the extra burden cramped his style. He wasn’t a good communicator and hence found it difficult to motivate his teammates to do better.A soft-spoken man to the last, he suffered from cancer during his last few years. Author of several cricket books, his autobiography was named ‘A Long Innings’.
Donald Bradman
Charles, a farmer from the county of Suffolk in southeastern England migrated to Australia in 1852. Legend has it that he was transported Down Under for stealing sheep! Three quarters of a century later, as if to make up for the treatment meted out to his 'grandpa', a young batsman named Donald George began an assault on English bowlers that gave them insomnia for well nigh twenty years. By the turn of the half-century their self-esteem had been smashed to smithereens.Donald George Bradman's test average against England was 89.78! Jim Laker, who once took 19 wickets in a test match against Australia, confesses that the great batsman gave him an 'inferiority complex'! Douglas Jardine, one of those who suffered sleepless nights on account of the 'run machine', invented the 'Bodyline' theory to combat the genius of Bradman during the Ashes series of 1932-33, Down Under. By the high standards he had set for himself, 'The Don' was a failure in that series, for he averaged 'only' 56.57 in four tests! Compare this to great performers like Sunil Gavaskar, Viv Richards, Javed Miandad and others who have just managed to average around 50 runs per innings during their illustrious careers!As a young boy, Bradman used to hit a golf ball against a brick wall in his garden with a cricket stump. Bill Bowes, the fast bowler who played for England in the 'Bodyline' series says that he once saw Bradman give a demonstration of bouncing a golf ball with a cricket stump. "He did it twenty times easily", he says. Bradman later informed him that he gets towards a century when his luck is in. "I found that other cricketers, when their luck was in, struggled to double figures," says Bowes.By the time the 1948 tour of England came along - his last series - Bradman had become so popular that he received an average of 600 letters from his fans all over the world everyday. But one letter from a Dutch fan, with just his photograph pasted on the envelope and the words 'somewhere playing in England' which reached him, just goes to prove how well known he was. Despite all the adulation and recognition that has come his way, Bradman remained a modest man who cherished his privacy. Notwithstanding what purists say about one-day cricket, the first limited overs international between Australia and England, in 1971, was played at the instance of Bradman, after the test match at MCG was abandoned due to rain. Bradman was knighted in 1949, and received his country's highest honour, the Companion of the Order of Australia in 1981. In his last inning in test cricket, at the Oval in 1948, Eric Hollies bowled him off a googly with only four runs needed to possess a test average of 100. After that match he said to Wally Hammond, another great batsman, "If only I could have my time over again!" Sir Donald died on 25 February 2001 at his Kensington Park residence in Adelaide, SA at 92, missing yet another coveted hundred!!
IndiaVijay Samuel Hazare was born on 11 March 1915 at Sangli in Maharashtra and died on 18 December 2004 at Baroda. An outstanding right-handed middle order batsman and part-time medium pacer, he is without doubt one of the finest batsmen ever produced by the sub-continent. Making his test debut against England at Lord’s in the first test of the 1946 series, he played his last test in the West Indies in 1952-3. The best of his batsmanship was seen during war time matches in the Ranji Trophy and much of his international career was cut short because of the war.Hazare played 30 tests for India, scoring 2,192 runs at an average of 47.65 with seven centuries and nine fifties, and a highest score of 164 n.o. He also claimed 20 wickets at an average of 61.0. He played first class cricket till 1966-7 and scored nearly 19,000 runs with 60 centuries and claimed 595 wickets.A batsman who did not believe in taking the bowling by the scruff of the neck, Hazare usually bided his time till the bowlers were tired and then launched into his signature cover drives, cuts and pull-shots. His centuries in each innings of the test match at Adelaide, against the mighty Aussies of the Bradman era, will remain etched forever as two of the finest innings played by any Indian. In England, while Trueman was running riot, reducing the Indians to nothing-for-four, Hazare walked in coolly and scored 56 runs to stem the rot. Though he captained India in 14 test matches, cricketing pundits believe that the extra burden cramped his style. He wasn’t a good communicator and hence found it difficult to motivate his teammates to do better.A soft-spoken man to the last, he suffered from cancer during his last few years. Author of several cricket books, his autobiography was named ‘A Long Innings’.
Donald Bradman
Charles, a farmer from the county of Suffolk in southeastern England migrated to Australia in 1852. Legend has it that he was transported Down Under for stealing sheep! Three quarters of a century later, as if to make up for the treatment meted out to his 'grandpa', a young batsman named Donald George began an assault on English bowlers that gave them insomnia for well nigh twenty years. By the turn of the half-century their self-esteem had been smashed to smithereens.Donald George Bradman's test average against England was 89.78! Jim Laker, who once took 19 wickets in a test match against Australia, confesses that the great batsman gave him an 'inferiority complex'! Douglas Jardine, one of those who suffered sleepless nights on account of the 'run machine', invented the 'Bodyline' theory to combat the genius of Bradman during the Ashes series of 1932-33, Down Under. By the high standards he had set for himself, 'The Don' was a failure in that series, for he averaged 'only' 56.57 in four tests! Compare this to great performers like Sunil Gavaskar, Viv Richards, Javed Miandad and others who have just managed to average around 50 runs per innings during their illustrious careers!As a young boy, Bradman used to hit a golf ball against a brick wall in his garden with a cricket stump. Bill Bowes, the fast bowler who played for England in the 'Bodyline' series says that he once saw Bradman give a demonstration of bouncing a golf ball with a cricket stump. "He did it twenty times easily", he says. Bradman later informed him that he gets towards a century when his luck is in. "I found that other cricketers, when their luck was in, struggled to double figures," says Bowes.By the time the 1948 tour of England came along - his last series - Bradman had become so popular that he received an average of 600 letters from his fans all over the world everyday. But one letter from a Dutch fan, with just his photograph pasted on the envelope and the words 'somewhere playing in England' which reached him, just goes to prove how well known he was. Despite all the adulation and recognition that has come his way, Bradman remained a modest man who cherished his privacy. Notwithstanding what purists say about one-day cricket, the first limited overs international between Australia and England, in 1971, was played at the instance of Bradman, after the test match at MCG was abandoned due to rain. Bradman was knighted in 1949, and received his country's highest honour, the Companion of the Order of Australia in 1981. In his last inning in test cricket, at the Oval in 1948, Eric Hollies bowled him off a googly with only four runs needed to possess a test average of 100. After that match he said to Wally Hammond, another great batsman, "If only I could have my time over again!" Sir Donald died on 25 February 2001 at his Kensington Park residence in Adelaide, SA at 92, missing yet another coveted hundred!!
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali, arguably the greatest boxer of all time and without doubt the most flamboyant character in sporting history, was born on 12 January 1942 to Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. and Odessa at Louisville in Kentucky, USA. He was named Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. He took up boxing at the age of 12 when somebody stole his bicycle. At 18, he won the light-heavyweight boxing gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics.Ali would sleep with the gold medal round his neck ever since he won it at Rome. He was given a hero's welcome home, but realized that he was still being treated as a 'black' and a 'slave'. He once had a fight in a restaurant meant exclusively for 'whites' and then had to fight off a gang of hoodlums to save his medal. That night, disgusted with the racist attitude of Americans, he went to the Jefferson County Bridge in Louisville and tossed his Olympic gold medal - which had taken him six years of blood, sweat and tears to win - down the Ohio River.Known as the 'Louisville Lip', Ali fought boxing greats like Floyd Patterson, Sonny 'Big Ugly Bear' Liston, 'Smokin' Joe' Frazier, George Foreman, and Leon Spinks during a long and successful career. He was stripped of the title after he refused to be drafted for the Vietnam War in 1967. Joe Frazier then beat him in an epic fight in 1971 when he was making a comeback after serving a ban. But Ali came back to win the coveted title of the Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World an unprecedented three times. He beat George Foreman in 1974 and then lost the title. He came back in 1978 to beat Leon Spinks to win it for the third time. Early in his career, Ali would even predict the round in which he would knockout his opponent. Pronouncements like "I am fast, I am pretty and I am the Greatest" and "I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee" are now legend. Large audiences would gather to watch his bouts and Ali would say, " I know that more than half of that crowd comes to see me beat because of my big mouth!"Ali wrote poetry when he was relaxing away from the ring. He once addressed a bunch of students at one of the premier colleges in the USA and he gave them the following advice:Stay in college; get the knowledgeStay there till you are through.If they can make Penicillin out of mouldy breadThey sure'll make something out of you! Muhammad Ali now lives in Berrien Springs, Michigan, USA and suffers from Parkinson's disease. He travels round the world doing social and religious work for his is still one of the most recognized faces on Earth. And decades after he burst upon the scene as a gold-medal winner at the 1960 Olympics in Rome, he remains a magical figure, known and loved throughout the world.Muhammad Ali's daughter Laila is a boxer of world renown.
Michael Ferreira
Born Bombay (Now Mumbai), 1 October 1938Nicknamed ‘Bombay Tiger’, Michael Ferreira, four times world Billiards champion, was a rebel with a cause during his playing days. In 1981, after winning the world title for a second time, he was offered the Padma Shri while Sunil Gavaskar was conferred with the more prestigious Padma Bhushan. His reply to the Government of India letter was, “My achievements in Billiards are in no way inferior to that of Sunil Gavaskar’s in Cricket. If he deserves a Padma Bhushan, I do too. The Government should treat all games equally.” He refused to accept the award. Throughout his career as a sportsman and later as a columnist, Ferreira has espoused the cause of better facilities for sports other than Cricket.After he won the world amateur Billiards title for a third time in 1983, the Government of India conferred on Ferreira the Padma Bhushan. He had earlier won the Maharashtra Government’s Shiv Chhatrapati Award in 1970, and the Government of India’s Arjuna Award in 1971.Ferreira is a lawyer by profession. An alumnus of St. Joseph’s Public School, Darjeeling, he started playing Billiards in 1954 and made his international debut in 1964 in New Zealand. There he finished a close third, losing narrowly to Wilson Jones of India, the ultimate winner and to Jack Karnehm, the runner-up by only 6 points. He was the bridesmaid at London in 1969, despite a record break of 629, and again at Bombay in 1973 and at Auckland in 1975. Ferreira won the world amateur Billiards championship for the first time at Melbourne in 1977, with the highest break of 519. He followed that triumph with the world open Billiards championship title at Christchurch, New Zealand, completing a unique double. He had proved his worth against the best players from the amateur as well as professional world of Billiards.In December 1978, he created history by becoming the first amateur to cross the 1000 point barrier by making a new world record break of 1149 in the national championships. He won the world amateur title again in 1981 at New Delhi with a top break of 630, a world record under the three-pot rule.Ferreira’s exploits at the national and international levels has given a tremendous shot-in-the-arm to cue sports in India, and he has been a role model to the fresh crop of youngsters, including Geet Sethi, who have kept the country’s flag flying high in international competitions. He drives a Cielo, because he ‘loves big cars’, likes good food and wine, and his favourite pastime is reading, writing and listening to western classical music.
Pele
Edson Arantes do Nascimento is one of the best-known footballers in the world. Better known as Pele - he doesn't remember where or how he got that name - he was born on 23rd of October 1940 in the small town of Tres Coracoes, Minas Gerais in Brazil. His father Dondinho was a professional footballer who hardly earned enough to make both ends meet. His mother Dona Celeste was a strict disciplinarian and she dreamed that her son would some day become a doctor, unlike Dondinho who wanted him to be a footballer. But Pele wanted to become a pilot!At the age of seven, Pele started shining shoes and then as he grew older, sold meat pies at the railway station to earn some money. He joined the famous Santos Football Club when he was only 14. Pele was nicknamed 'Gasolina' at Santos. "Whenever they wanted someone to go out for coffee or to run an errand, they would call on me as the youngest in the team and they would tell me not to spare the 'gasoline' in getting there and back. Hence the name 'Gasolina". He played for Santos, in the seniors, at the age of 15 and a year later made a dream international debut, playing as a substitute for Brazil against Argentina in a friendly game and scoring a goal.Pele was picked for the 1958 World Cup in Sweden and made his World Cup debut in the third match against Russia. He scored his first World Cup goal against Wales, and then scored a hat-trick against France in the semi-final. He scored two more goals in the final against Sweden to help Brazil win by 5 goals to 2. In the 1962 World Cup in Chile, Pele got himself injured in the second game and was out of action for a long time, while in the 1966 World Cup in England, ruthless tackling by the Portuguese almost left him a cripple.Pele scored his 1000th goal in 1969 against Vasco da Gama at the Maracana Stadium in Rio. In the 1970 World Cup final against Italy, Pele opened the scoring with a spectacular jump and header from a cross by Rivelino. He then set up Jairzinho and Carlos Alberto with beautiful passes to score goals and helped Brazil win the final 4-1. Brazil thus became permanent holders of the Jules Rimet Trophy, having won it thrice.Pele has represented only two clubs through his illustrious career. He played his final game for Santos in 1974, but came out of retirement to play for New York Cosmos, from where he finally retired in 1977, having scored nearly 1,300 goals in a career spanning twenty years.The shy, unassuming boy from the shantytown of Tres Coracoes grew up to be the most recognized face in the sporting world. In Nigeria, a two-day truce was declared in the tragic war against Biafra so that both sides could watch him play. In Hong Kong, Red Guards from China left their posts to come and meet him; The Shah of Iran waited three hours at the airport to meet him and get photographed with him. Pele became ambassador for the sport after his retirement.
Chris Evert-Mills
'Chrissie' as she is known on the tennis circuit was born on 21st December 1954 at Fort Lauderdale in Florida, USA and was coached by her father Jim, tennis pro of the 1940s. During a career lasting 18 years, she displayed a consistency, which very few players will be able to emulate. Ms Evert-Mills took part in 56 Grand Slam tournaments (reaching at least the semis in 52 of them) and won two Australian, seven French, three Wimbledon and six US Open singles titles. Ms Evert-Mills first made an impression as a pony-tailed schoolgirl at the US Open of 1971, where she entered the semifinals as an amateur and an unseeded player, before losing to the ultimate winner, Billie Jean King. Her father wanted her to finish school before turning pro, which she did in 1972 on her eighteenth birthday. Her game will be remembered for the two handed backhand that she played with such consistency from the baseline. But what was more vital - many tennis followers fail to take this aspect into account - was the mental tenacity that she maintained over a very long period. She had battled heavyweights like Margaret Court, Billie Jean King and Evonne Goolagong out of tennis early in her career. She was determined that nobody should easily dethrone her and when Martina Navratilova grew stronger, following a computerized gym-diet regimen, Ms Evert-Mills rededicated herself to work harder and counterpunched Ms Navratilova's serves and volleys. She says, "Martina and I have brought out the best in each other. At the beginning, I was beating her handily and then she started a new training technique and got into great shape and worked on her mental state and she started beating me. I didn't want to stay where I was. Martina made me work harder." Ms Evert-Mills' intense rivalry with Ms Navratilova over a period of 15 years brought glory to women's tennis and made the game a great career option for many young players. She was so consistent that between 1974 and 1986 she won at least one Grand Slam title a year. Not surprisingly, she earned more than $ 9 million in prize money and several times that amount in endorsements during her playing career.Ms. Evert-Mills now represents many companies as spokesperson and does tennis commentary for American TV channel, NBC. Monica Seles says that Ms Evert-Mills influenced tennis a lot by bringing femininity into it. That about sums it up
Edson Arantes do Nascimento is one of the best-known footballers in the world. Better known as Pele - he doesn't remember where or how he got that name - he was born on 23rd of October 1940 in the small town of Tres Coracoes, Minas Gerais in Brazil. His father Dondinho was a professional footballer who hardly earned enough to make both ends meet. His mother Dona Celeste was a strict disciplinarian and she dreamed that her son would some day become a doctor, unlike Dondinho who wanted him to be a footballer. But Pele wanted to become a pilot!At the age of seven, Pele started shining shoes and then as he grew older, sold meat pies at the railway station to earn some money. He joined the famous Santos Football Club when he was only 14. Pele was nicknamed 'Gasolina' at Santos. "Whenever they wanted someone to go out for coffee or to run an errand, they would call on me as the youngest in the team and they would tell me not to spare the 'gasoline' in getting there and back. Hence the name 'Gasolina". He played for Santos, in the seniors, at the age of 15 and a year later made a dream international debut, playing as a substitute for Brazil against Argentina in a friendly game and scoring a goal.Pele was picked for the 1958 World Cup in Sweden and made his World Cup debut in the third match against Russia. He scored his first World Cup goal against Wales, and then scored a hat-trick against France in the semi-final. He scored two more goals in the final against Sweden to help Brazil win by 5 goals to 2. In the 1962 World Cup in Chile, Pele got himself injured in the second game and was out of action for a long time, while in the 1966 World Cup in England, ruthless tackling by the Portuguese almost left him a cripple.Pele scored his 1000th goal in 1969 against Vasco da Gama at the Maracana Stadium in Rio. In the 1970 World Cup final against Italy, Pele opened the scoring with a spectacular jump and header from a cross by Rivelino. He then set up Jairzinho and Carlos Alberto with beautiful passes to score goals and helped Brazil win the final 4-1. Brazil thus became permanent holders of the Jules Rimet Trophy, having won it thrice.Pele has represented only two clubs through his illustrious career. He played his final game for Santos in 1974, but came out of retirement to play for New York Cosmos, from where he finally retired in 1977, having scored nearly 1,300 goals in a career spanning twenty years.The shy, unassuming boy from the shantytown of Tres Coracoes grew up to be the most recognized face in the sporting world. In Nigeria, a two-day truce was declared in the tragic war against Biafra so that both sides could watch him play. In Hong Kong, Red Guards from China left their posts to come and meet him; The Shah of Iran waited three hours at the airport to meet him and get photographed with him. Pele became ambassador for the sport after his retirement.
Chris Evert-Mills
'Chrissie' as she is known on the tennis circuit was born on 21st December 1954 at Fort Lauderdale in Florida, USA and was coached by her father Jim, tennis pro of the 1940s. During a career lasting 18 years, she displayed a consistency, which very few players will be able to emulate. Ms Evert-Mills took part in 56 Grand Slam tournaments (reaching at least the semis in 52 of them) and won two Australian, seven French, three Wimbledon and six US Open singles titles. Ms Evert-Mills first made an impression as a pony-tailed schoolgirl at the US Open of 1971, where she entered the semifinals as an amateur and an unseeded player, before losing to the ultimate winner, Billie Jean King. Her father wanted her to finish school before turning pro, which she did in 1972 on her eighteenth birthday. Her game will be remembered for the two handed backhand that she played with such consistency from the baseline. But what was more vital - many tennis followers fail to take this aspect into account - was the mental tenacity that she maintained over a very long period. She had battled heavyweights like Margaret Court, Billie Jean King and Evonne Goolagong out of tennis early in her career. She was determined that nobody should easily dethrone her and when Martina Navratilova grew stronger, following a computerized gym-diet regimen, Ms Evert-Mills rededicated herself to work harder and counterpunched Ms Navratilova's serves and volleys. She says, "Martina and I have brought out the best in each other. At the beginning, I was beating her handily and then she started a new training technique and got into great shape and worked on her mental state and she started beating me. I didn't want to stay where I was. Martina made me work harder." Ms Evert-Mills' intense rivalry with Ms Navratilova over a period of 15 years brought glory to women's tennis and made the game a great career option for many young players. She was so consistent that between 1974 and 1986 she won at least one Grand Slam title a year. Not surprisingly, she earned more than $ 9 million in prize money and several times that amount in endorsements during her playing career.Ms. Evert-Mills now represents many companies as spokesperson and does tennis commentary for American TV channel, NBC. Monica Seles says that Ms Evert-Mills influenced tennis a lot by bringing femininity into it. That about sums it up
Prakash Padukone
Born Bangalore, 10 June 1955On a fine day in 1971, at Jabalpur, a young Prakash Padukone watched in awe as the legendary Indonesian shuttler, Rudy Hartono did 10,000 skips and then played a game full of jumps and smashes. That was the day India’s Badminton fortunes took an upward turn. Prakash’s decision to trade his defensive style for the more robust style of play of the Indonesians was to pay him rich dividends in the years to come. Shy and soft-spoken, Prakash was initiated into the game at a tender age by his father. Padukone Sr. was the Secretary of the Mysore Badminton Association for many years and saw in his son the talent to make it big in the game very early. Prakash, playing in his first tournament a year later, in September 1962, lost in the first round and howling at the top of his voice, refused to leave the court. He relented only when the President of the Association promised him a new racquet. Two years later he won the state junior championship. Prakash became the junior national champion in 1970. After that fateful day in Jabalpur, having changed gears, he won both the junior and the senior nationals in 1972. He was now head and shoulders above every other player in the country and was promptly included in the Thomas Cup squad. But it wasn't till 1979 that he won his first major international title, that of the Commonwealth games.Wins at the London Masters’ Open, the Danish Open and the Swedish Open gave him the confidence necessary to aim for the coveted All England Open title. Only a year earlier, seeded number one at the same tournament, Prakash had had to withdraw with a painful heel injury. He was now fit and raring to go.Prakash met Liem Swie King, the reigning champion in the finals of the All England Open and beat him in straight games. “I’ve done it!” cried Prakash, and all hell broke lose. A new King had been crowned! A teetotaller, he took a sip of the champagne that was making the rounds, but not before diluting it with apple juice. When the Indian team coach asked the women members of the team to kiss Prakash, they just blushed. The usually bashful Prakash however saved them the embarrassment by pecking each of them on their cheeks!The ‘killer instinct’, the lack of which has been the bane of Indian sport for long, was now a part of Prakash’s armoury. In the Swedish Open of 1980, however, he met Rudy Hartono in the early rounds and beat him 9-15, 15-12 and 15-1. “ I could have beaten him on ‘love’ in the last game, but I did not have the heart to do that to my Idol. So I ensured that he got one point before I beat him,” says Prakash, ever the gentleman.Prakash, who lives in Bangalore with wife Ujjala and two daughters, now runs a Badminton Academy and has already produced some world-beaters.
Martina Navratilova
Lawn Tennis (USA)Martina Navratilova was born on October. 18, 1956, in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and became a U.S. citizen in 1981, after defecting six years earlier. She was raised by her mother, Jana, and stepfather, Mirek Navratil, whose name she took. Arguably the greatest player of all time, she was inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame in 2000. She first displayed her talent as a 16-year-old, in 1973 at the French Open, when she defeated the experienced Nancy Richey and then reached the quarterfinals without being seeded. Her intense rivalry with another legend, Chris Evert started the same year at Ohio at an indoor tourney. Evert says, “Though she was overweight and inexperienced, it was a close match. I didn’t know her, neither could I pronounce her name, but I knew she would be trouble if she got into shape.” The 140 lb., 5’8” Navratilova made extreme fitness her aim, following a computer-generated regimen in training and diet. Evert was now not only her friend and role model but a rival who had to be defeated every time they met. When Evert was in top form, their track record read 21-4, but Navratilova won their last encounter in Chicago in 1988 to wind up with a 37-43 edge. Three years later, Navratilova also overtook Evert’s record 157 pro singles tournament victories.Navratilova’s best performances have come at the Mecca of Lawn Tennis, the Centre Court at Wimbledon. In 1990 she won her ninth singles title there, beating the previous best of eight by Helen Wills Moody in 1938. She began her run at Moody beating top-seeded Evert, 2-6, 6-4, 7-5, in the 1978 final. Navratilova then reeled off victories in the ladies’ singles for six successive years (1982 to 1987), snapping Suzanne Lenglen's mark of five (1919-23). Looking for a seventh consecutive win in 1988, she was defeated by Grand Slammer Steffi Graf in the final. Navratilova won the 1990 crown in her 11th final. She played one more singles final at the Center Court, at the age of 37, after which she bid adieu. She lost the final to the backhand passes of a younger and fitter Cochita Martinez.Navratilova also won four U.S Open titles, three Australian and two French singles. Winning the U.S. was her most frustrating trial. Not until her 11th try, in 1983 did Navratilova make it: 6-1, 6-3, over Evert. Only one prize, a singles Grand Slam, eluded her although she came very close to winning it in 1983 and 1984. Navratilova, however, did register a doubles Grand Slam with Pam Shriver in 1984. Perhaps the greatest of all teams, Navratilova-Shriver won 20 major titles. In 1987 she made a rare triple at the U.S. Open (singles, doubles, mixed), only the third time in the open era of Tennis. After her defection to the US she was declared a ‘non-person’ by the Czechoslovak government, and her results were not published in any of the newspapers in her homeland. However, in 1986, she led the US to victory in the Federation Cup in Czechoslovakia much to the embarrassment of the government of her land of birth.Martina continues to play doubles and mixed doubles at Grand Slam tournaments, having won titles at the Australian Open and Wimbledon last year, partnering India’s Leander Paes. The 46-year-old legend has now amassed 20 Wimbledon titles, the same as record holder Billie Jean King.
Born Bangalore, 10 June 1955On a fine day in 1971, at Jabalpur, a young Prakash Padukone watched in awe as the legendary Indonesian shuttler, Rudy Hartono did 10,000 skips and then played a game full of jumps and smashes. That was the day India’s Badminton fortunes took an upward turn. Prakash’s decision to trade his defensive style for the more robust style of play of the Indonesians was to pay him rich dividends in the years to come. Shy and soft-spoken, Prakash was initiated into the game at a tender age by his father. Padukone Sr. was the Secretary of the Mysore Badminton Association for many years and saw in his son the talent to make it big in the game very early. Prakash, playing in his first tournament a year later, in September 1962, lost in the first round and howling at the top of his voice, refused to leave the court. He relented only when the President of the Association promised him a new racquet. Two years later he won the state junior championship. Prakash became the junior national champion in 1970. After that fateful day in Jabalpur, having changed gears, he won both the junior and the senior nationals in 1972. He was now head and shoulders above every other player in the country and was promptly included in the Thomas Cup squad. But it wasn't till 1979 that he won his first major international title, that of the Commonwealth games.Wins at the London Masters’ Open, the Danish Open and the Swedish Open gave him the confidence necessary to aim for the coveted All England Open title. Only a year earlier, seeded number one at the same tournament, Prakash had had to withdraw with a painful heel injury. He was now fit and raring to go.Prakash met Liem Swie King, the reigning champion in the finals of the All England Open and beat him in straight games. “I’ve done it!” cried Prakash, and all hell broke lose. A new King had been crowned! A teetotaller, he took a sip of the champagne that was making the rounds, but not before diluting it with apple juice. When the Indian team coach asked the women members of the team to kiss Prakash, they just blushed. The usually bashful Prakash however saved them the embarrassment by pecking each of them on their cheeks!The ‘killer instinct’, the lack of which has been the bane of Indian sport for long, was now a part of Prakash’s armoury. In the Swedish Open of 1980, however, he met Rudy Hartono in the early rounds and beat him 9-15, 15-12 and 15-1. “ I could have beaten him on ‘love’ in the last game, but I did not have the heart to do that to my Idol. So I ensured that he got one point before I beat him,” says Prakash, ever the gentleman.Prakash, who lives in Bangalore with wife Ujjala and two daughters, now runs a Badminton Academy and has already produced some world-beaters.
Martina Navratilova
Lawn Tennis (USA)Martina Navratilova was born on October. 18, 1956, in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and became a U.S. citizen in 1981, after defecting six years earlier. She was raised by her mother, Jana, and stepfather, Mirek Navratil, whose name she took. Arguably the greatest player of all time, she was inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame in 2000. She first displayed her talent as a 16-year-old, in 1973 at the French Open, when she defeated the experienced Nancy Richey and then reached the quarterfinals without being seeded. Her intense rivalry with another legend, Chris Evert started the same year at Ohio at an indoor tourney. Evert says, “Though she was overweight and inexperienced, it was a close match. I didn’t know her, neither could I pronounce her name, but I knew she would be trouble if she got into shape.” The 140 lb., 5’8” Navratilova made extreme fitness her aim, following a computer-generated regimen in training and diet. Evert was now not only her friend and role model but a rival who had to be defeated every time they met. When Evert was in top form, their track record read 21-4, but Navratilova won their last encounter in Chicago in 1988 to wind up with a 37-43 edge. Three years later, Navratilova also overtook Evert’s record 157 pro singles tournament victories.Navratilova’s best performances have come at the Mecca of Lawn Tennis, the Centre Court at Wimbledon. In 1990 she won her ninth singles title there, beating the previous best of eight by Helen Wills Moody in 1938. She began her run at Moody beating top-seeded Evert, 2-6, 6-4, 7-5, in the 1978 final. Navratilova then reeled off victories in the ladies’ singles for six successive years (1982 to 1987), snapping Suzanne Lenglen's mark of five (1919-23). Looking for a seventh consecutive win in 1988, she was defeated by Grand Slammer Steffi Graf in the final. Navratilova won the 1990 crown in her 11th final. She played one more singles final at the Center Court, at the age of 37, after which she bid adieu. She lost the final to the backhand passes of a younger and fitter Cochita Martinez.Navratilova also won four U.S Open titles, three Australian and two French singles. Winning the U.S. was her most frustrating trial. Not until her 11th try, in 1983 did Navratilova make it: 6-1, 6-3, over Evert. Only one prize, a singles Grand Slam, eluded her although she came very close to winning it in 1983 and 1984. Navratilova, however, did register a doubles Grand Slam with Pam Shriver in 1984. Perhaps the greatest of all teams, Navratilova-Shriver won 20 major titles. In 1987 she made a rare triple at the U.S. Open (singles, doubles, mixed), only the third time in the open era of Tennis. After her defection to the US she was declared a ‘non-person’ by the Czechoslovak government, and her results were not published in any of the newspapers in her homeland. However, in 1986, she led the US to victory in the Federation Cup in Czechoslovakia much to the embarrassment of the government of her land of birth.Martina continues to play doubles and mixed doubles at Grand Slam tournaments, having won titles at the Australian Open and Wimbledon last year, partnering India’s Leander Paes. The 46-year-old legend has now amassed 20 Wimbledon titles, the same as record holder Billie Jean King.
Men and Sports.....Why is that the Men will do anything to play SPORTS , watch SPORTS , sleep SPORTS , eat SPORTS , drink SPORTS......???
Top 10 Perfectly Timed Sports Pictures
Author: Top 10 Kid
Filed under: Sports
Date: Oct 2,2007
10: NO NEED FOR ZOOM
9: POOT!
8: UH OH
7: FINISH HIM
6: CATCH THIS
5: HONK HONK
4: RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES
3: FACE
2: SISSY GIRL FACE
1: JAWBREAKER
